VB Forum / General / March 2005

i have given my app an helpfile like so
app.helpfile=app.path & "\Helpfile.chm"
now if i push F1 my helpfile shows
but if i stop the program the helpfile is still on the desktop

Our VB application uses 3 socket controls, 2 are client
socket controls who receive data and 1 is the server
socket control who send data out to clients.
I have the following questions:

Is it possible to initiate a form print (in response to a click event)
without creating a Printing class? Is there no way inherent in the Forms.Form
class to print something out?

When I right click on my listview (or toolbar for that matter) and select
properties, Windows installer kicks in and tries to install Easy CD Writer 5
Basic!  I hit cancel, it tries again, I hit cancel again and then I get my
property page I need.  This process takes about 15 ...

I write a program which run on the clients side, the program need to change
the clients computer settings. i want to change the user's credentials from
the program so the program can perform the change with administrator
privilege.

I am using this code to convert time to a decimal:
flxHistory.TextMatrix(i, 1) = CSng(TimeValue(flxHistory.TextMatrix(i, 1)))
so how do I get it back into time format?????
Thnx

I need a few rows of a database im creating to be auto incrementing. So i
found out that i needed to add a line like:
objCatalog.Tables(sTableName).Columns(sRowName).Properties("Autoincrement")
= True

My name is Umer KK, and i m new in VB, I just know some basic stuff of
Vb, Now i need u peoples Help, I wanted to Know What are Classes,
Modules, and Dlls, plz Tell me how can i make them and how can i use
them, its better iif u give me some examples also, i will be very

   I was wondering if someone could tell me how to do this:
Given: Some object "objX"
for each element of objX
   determine type (object, string, long, etc)

I'm confused.  I'm trying to use TextWidth to figure out the length of a
string that I'm going to output to a picturebox using GDI+ display methods.
I believe the same thing was happening to me months ago with straight GDI
methods, but I can't be sure.

List:
I'm testing the WinAPI registry functions, creating wrapper functions
from VB that encapsulate all the complexity . . it is hoped at any rate.
I do a call to RegQueryInfoKey go get the infomation from

I have this code:
Public Function PopUpPassword(Optional FrmAfter As Form) As Boolean
       frmPassword.Show vbModal
       Select Case gbPasswordTrue

I'm using the MSFlexGrid to display values from a modeling application.
6-10 columns, 1-300 rows, 1 fixed row and column.
I'm indexing the MSFG for the user so the values relative to the placement
of the cursor on a graph become visible.  I would like to change the text to

Our application has a service,  service searches mdb file in the specified
folder over network using "DIR" function call. When we run our service on
windows XP machine, DIR returns empty string even though mdb file is
present.  This is happening only on windows XP.

I am well aware of function Format, but I am uncertain if it can do the
following: to display "+" sign or "space" in front of pozitive numbers.
E.g. if I use format "00000.0" then negative number -12345 will display
like "-12345.0", so I want pozitive number string to be of the ...